Brett Kavanaugh

Brett Michael Kavanaugh (12 February 1965-) was a Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 30 May 2006, succeeding Laurence Silberman. He also served as White House Staff Secretary from 6 June 2003 to 30 May 2006. In 2018, Donald Trump nominated him to the US Supreme Court, but his nomination was controversial due to sexual assault allegations.

Biography
Brett Michael Kavanaugh was born in Washington DC on 12 February 1965, with his father working as an attorney and his mother as a judge. He was raised in Bethesda, Maryland, and he attended prep school before going to Yale University. During his high school years in the 1980s, he was alleged to have drunkenly raped Christine Blasey Ford, who was only fifteen years old at the time. He expressed his love for alcohol in his high school yearbook, an issue that would later be brought up during his nomination for the US Supreme Court.

In 1990, he was admitted to the Maryland bar, and he worked for the government and in private practice. In 2000, he joined the legal team of George W. Bush in his attempt to stop the ballot recount in Florida, and, in 2003, President Bush appointed Kavanaugh as his Staff Secretary. In 2006, Kavanaugh became a Court of Appeals judge in Washington DC, and he was strongly anti-abortion and conservative. On 9 July 2018, Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, and, on 27 September 2018, he was subjected to a US Senate hearing due to rape allegations. On 28 September, the Republicans ensured that his nomination was advanced to the Senate, and the FBI investigated him.